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This gang warfare movie is set in Birmingham’s black community. With aggressive hip-hop figuring as a kind of chorus commenting on the action and raising the emotional ante, it tells the familiar story of a drug dealer threatened with death if he doesn’t repay within three hours the £500,000 he’s been holding for a fellow criminal just released from jail. The Birmingham police have attempted to have the film banned for its apparent aggrandisement of its characters and their way of life: understandable but misguided.
May 20th